Haha

I've been googling. Looks like it could just mean he (or his ancestors) are from Schweinsteig and that means pig-sty.

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Though I found someone else saying that Steig is a path up a hill/mountain and so Schweinsteig (as in the place) is the path up which pigs were driven, which must be what you heard

Posted By: BerlinCanary on July 13th 2014 at 22:01:19

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Could Schweinsteiger look any more German? (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jul 13, 21:27:39
- Only with the use of a sleeveless denim jacket covered in pin-badges. (n/m) (General Chat) - bird table, Jul 13, 21:34:03
- With poo all over his face, perhaps (n/m) (General Chat) - Huge Small, Jul 13, 21:31:29
- Literally translated: pig farmer (n/m) (General Chat) - Mark Barham, Jul 13, 21:30:19
  - Not literally translated as pig farmer. (General Chat) - Yellalee, Jul 13, 21:36:51
    - Interesting. Very old form of Steiger then? (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jul 13, 21:40:18
      - I can't remember exactly, I think it was bastardised (very un-Germanic language behaviour) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Jul 13, 21:43:37
        
        Hence the 'steig' aspect of it - specifically driving up a hill (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Jul 13, 21:44:27
        
        Aha. That makes sense (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jul 13, 21:49:55
        
        This is true actually. There's been a few fairly revolutionary fundamental grammar changes (General Chat) - Yellalee, Jul 13, 21:52:32
        
        Haha (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jul 13, 22:01:19
        
        Ah that's interesting. Who knows then. (General Chat) - Yellalee, Jul 13, 22:06:11
        
        Definitely someone from Schweinsteig (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jul 13, 22:17:35
  - Der Steiger is a foreman or overseer (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jul 13, 21:34:56
    - Pig supervisor. (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Jul 13, 21:39:42
    - Pig Driver?? (n/m) (General Chat) - Mark Barham, Jul 13, 21:37:35
- Small moustache? Monocle? (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Jul 13, 21:30:11
- This thread is going to end badly, I fear (n/m) (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Jul 13, 21:28:17
  - *distances self from thread* (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jul 13, 21:34:53
  - lol (n/m) (General Chat) - norway, Jul 13, 21:28:50

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